A top Senate Democrat and Republican on Monday unveiled a bill to impose extensive new economic sanctions on the Islamic Republic of Iran over its nuclear activities. The U.S. Senate Banking Committee released details of its 61-page bipartisan bill late on Monday and senators will consider the measures and vote on them at a hearing on Thursday....

Press TV - An Iranian oil tanker that was recently hit by two missiles in a suspicious attack in waters off the Saudi coast in the Red Sea has entered Irans territorial waters. According to the National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC), the tanker, christened Sabiti, returned home on Monday and will dock in the southern Kharg Island in two days to ...

Press TV - Irans state-run operator of oil tankers has rejected media reports suggesting a ship that was attacked last week in the Red Sea and off the coast of Saudi Arabia keeps leaking while on its way back home. The National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC) said on Tuesday that an oil leak from Iranian ship MT Sabiti that began following two rocket ...

Sky News - New pictures have emerged showing damage to an Iranian tanker allegedly struck by rockets near the Saudi port city of Jeddah. Oil leaked into the Red Sea from the Sabiti vessel after the explosion on Friday, which Iranian media reported was likely caused by a missile attack. The images were released on Monday by the Iranian Oil Ministry,...

AFP - Saudi Arabia said Saturday it was ready to help the Iranian tanker that was allegedly attacked off the kingdom's coast, but the ship turned off its tracking system. The National Iranian Tanker Company, which owns the Sabiti, said its hull was hit by two separate explosions on Friday off the Saudi port of Jeddah. But the state-owned company ...

IRNA Spokesman of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office expressed concern over the recent accident happened for the Iranian oil tanker in the Red Sea. Reports of explosions on board a tanker in the Red Sea are troubling. We are working to establish the facts, the British spokesman told IRNA on the condition of anonymity. The Iranian oil tanker ...

SHANA -- National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC) announced that SABITI Oil Tanker which was probably hit by missiles in the Red Sea was sailing towards the Persian Gulf. According to NITC, the blast-hit SABITI vessel is heading towards the Persian Gulf after being stabilized following the two blasts on Friday morning. The oil tanker belongs to ...

Press TV - Two separate explosions, possibly caused by missile attacks, in anIranian oil tanker operated by the National Iranian TankerCompany (NITC) have hitthe vesselnear the Saudi port city of Jeddah. The incident took place some 60 miles from Jeddah early Friday, according to informed sources. The explosions havereportedly hit the vessels ...

SHANA Firefighting operations to extinguish a burning Iran oil tanker in the East China Sea has begun and rescue teams will enter the tanker as soon the blaze is controlled, National Iranian Tanker Company says. Spokesman of an emergency committee of the Iranian tanker collision with a Chinese balk freighter, Captain Mohsen Bahrami said two fireboats ...

FNA- Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister for Consular, Parliamentary and Expatriates Affairs Hassan Qashqavi announced that his country has received no report on the fate of the Iranian sailors who have gone missing after two vessels collided off China's East Coast. "Most of the crew were Iranians and as no one can approach the ship from a one-kilometer ...

MNA Iranian oil tanker fleet have succeeded in receiving two new international certificates including ISO9001:2015 and ISO14001:2015. As a result of cruel international sanctions, the process of issuing expert and international certificates had stopped for Iranian tankers who were consequently banned from entering major European ports. Nevertheless,...

Shana -- Advisor to National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC) Ali Asghar Arshi discussed the company's challenges and opportunities at the 22nd World Petroleum Congress in Istanbul on Wednesday. At the beginning of his address, Arshi gas an overview of NITC to the audience, saying the company has more than sixty years of honorable presence in global ...

Shana -- Managing director of National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC) said his company has struck over 70 tanker lease deals since January 2016 when Iran's landmark nuclear deal was implemented. Sirous Kian Ersi said the deals were cemented with leading international energy companies, addingthat most of the companies are based in Europe and Asia....

Press TV- An Iranian oil tanker has called at a European port for the first time since the lifting of sanctions last January, managing director of the National Iranian Tankers Company (NITC) says. The first NITC tanker leased to a major Spanish oil company docked at the Port of Algeciras just recently, Sirous Kianersi said in remarks quoted ...

TEHRAN, Oct 29 (Shana) Managing Director of the National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC) Sirus Kian Ersi says the NITC welcomes expansion of relations with Greek companies. "NITC welcomes expansion of relations with Greek companies," Ersi made the remark in a meeting with Greek Ambassador to Tehran Georgios Ayfantis in Tehran on Saturday. He said ...

TEHRAN, June 22 (Shana) The shippers at the National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC) are prepared to set sails in European markets, an NITC official said. Director of Human Resources Development at NITC Behzad Anvari Tootoonchi has voiced the company's readiness to restore its presence in European markets now that US-led sanctions on Tehran's nuclear ...

TEHRAN, May 28 (Shana) Managing Director of National Iranian Tanker Company Ali Akbar Safaei said the company is ready to lease out its tankers to foreign companies for oil transfer. Speaking to Shana, Safaei said the company is also fully prepared to deliver all of Iran's oil exports to international destinations. "All NITC capacity is available ...

  TEHRAN, May 16 (Shana) -- Iran has the capacity to become regions energy hub, Managing-Director of National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC) Ali-Akbar Safaei said. He made the remarks in the first international conference titled Rail-Ports and Rail-Oil in Tehran on Monday. Iran is a country with giant natural resources and big import, ...

Tehran, May 13, IRNA Managing Director of National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC) said here on Friday that the insurance issue of Iranian tankers has been solved completely. Talking to IRNA, Ali-Akbar Safaei said thanks to issuance of valid international certificates and removal of insurance sanctions, there is no limit for the movement of oil tankers ...

TEHRAN, May 11 (Shana) -- Commercial Director of the National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC) Nasrollah Sardashti said that this company is ready to re-start carrying Irans oil to Europe. "We expect that first Iranian oil tankers start their travel to European ports in June 2016," he added. The official said that NITC has done enough preparations ...